Word: team
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first game of the season was played against the Abington Athletic Association team, which put up a stiff fight, despite the 21-0 score. Captain Wales, G. S. Morse '22; E. H. Stillman '21, and R. P. Parker '22 all showed in this game their ability at line-plunging and kicking, but the long gains made by Brett, the Abington halfback, kept it from being too one-sided...
Despite the loss of several men through injuries, the second team won its final game the following week from the U. S. Submarine Base of New London by a score of 17 to 7. L. Crosscup Occ., D. Angier '22, and B. Hunneman '22 were the individual stars in this game...
...meeting opened with a cheer; then songs, more cheering and speeches, followed in quick succession. Coach "Wally" Trumbull '15 started things by denouncing the "split in the Harvard team" story of yesterday's newspapers as a lie. "The spirit of the men and the coaches is the same as ever and the harmony between them as good as any I ever saw," he continued...
Head Coach Fisher '12, the next speaker, emphasized the fact that the easy schedule was forced upon the management by circumstances. "We sent the team against Princeton without knowing how well it would show up. But from the first minute the team 'came back.' And the fact that the team, in the last five minutes of play fought their way to a tie shows the stuff they are made of." Relative to the Yale game he said, "I was greatly impressed by the Yale team, their strength and power. But look at that eleven," (turning...
Further assurance that the team backed up Coach Fisher to a man was given by the words of Captain W. J. Murray. "There isn't a man on the team who will not give up all personal ambition to win that game, and who does not trust Coach Fisher to the limit...